The most common method to take a photo from a video is to pause it and take a screenshot. However, this method is not useful as it may take low quality images. Now, Google is making it easier for users to capture images from videos on Chrome.
“It’s easy to copy an image from a website in Chrome — but what if you want to capture an important frame from a recorded lecture for your notes? You could take a screenshot, but you’ll likely get a lower-quality image (with the video’s progress bar cut across it),” Google said in a post.
‘Copy Video Frame‘ in Google Chrome
Google has a solution. When using Chrome, or another Chromium-based browser, like Microsoft Edge, users can pause at any time during a video, right-click and select the new “Copy Video Frame” option from the pop-up menu.
“Available starting today, you can pause anywhere in a video that’s playing in Chrome and get a clean copy of the exact frame you want. Just right-click in the video and select ‘Copy Video Frame’,” Google said.
In this way, Chrome will capture what is currently being shown and users will have an option to paste the image in supported text fields within the browser, like Google Docs, and save the file for future references.
According to a report by Engadget, the feature is limited to some streaming services, as many of them have restricted capturing content. It said that the feature works only with YouTube and it needs some fine-tuning.
Chrome’s ‘Copy Video Frame’ is being rolled out for Windows, Mac, Linux and ChromeOS, however, the team members of Gadgets Now-Times of India haven’t received the feature at the time of writing this report.